pdkl95

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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Allowed to be bald?! Allowed to be bald and keep their job . > What are they supposed to do? Straighten it? YES . Again, from the article: >> But dismissing certain styles as “distracting” can also amount to discrimination,
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> male newscasters have the same hair From the article: >> “The expectation for women to look young and pretty with smooth skin and smooth hair — and to conform to this very narrow standard — is so disproportionate. Men are allowed
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Cal Fire Unfortunately the general pilot shortage and the longer fire season is starting to impact Cal Fire, leaving a few airtanks grounded without pilots. These pilots traditionally worked on a seasonal schedule: ~four months of heav
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Libertarian Utopia dating[1] has too much paperwork, and the nightclub attorney's fees are gradually changing my cocktails into cheap watered down beer. Giving up on interacting with real humans and ordering a Cherry 2000[2] would be a
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> A workaround would be for EA to simply officially sell the game's "coins" Preventing this kind of workaround is already part of many gambling laws. They usually define the payment/stake/wager as a very generic
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Do they only hire from Lake Wobegon, where "all the children are above average"? /apologies to Garrison Keillor edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_... (and yes Keillor&#x27
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Yes, it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Some of my comments from 4 years ago when Chrome hiding URLs was just an "experiment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7694919
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> such a number could be calculated Compute this from the start of page load. Adjust the scale of the final output if desired. # automatically scaled to local hardware # in units the user actually experiences t := "tot
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> 25.09 Twenty five what? Megabytes? Mebibytes? Percent? Libraries of Congress? Furlongs per fortnight? Inverse femtobarns? I can guess you mean "MiB" (mebibytes) from the charts, but units are always important. Bare numbers
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> you're only fucked if your OPSEC is weak The problem is that actually implementing not-weak OPSEC is much harder than most people understand (even those with technical backgrounds). For example, is your "secret" activi
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Speaking of The Juice Media, I recommend watching their last Rap News, "Fate of the INTERNET - Feat. Dan Bull"[1]. It does a very good job summarizing the power struggle over the internet. The real question’s not which one o
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The Bridge Tongues(youtube.com)
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Unicard (1994)(fourmilab.ch)
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Unicard That's an interesting choice of name; it's also the name of an essay[1] by John Walker[2] (who also wrote about "The Digital Imprimatur"[3]). He warned about this type of privacy problem in 1994 : > Unic
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Short of bit flipping due to environmental conditions Cosmic rays do flip bits. If you're making anything that might be safety-critical, your design needs to fail safely when hit by a cosmic ray or any other hardware failure.
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> The Therac-25 X-ray machine killed several people ... The reason? A race condition. The problem with the Therac-25 was NOT the race condition. Complex devices will always have bugs, because humans haven't figured out a way to do
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by pdkl95 8y ago
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Those helicopter pilots must have a very steady hand. Piloting a helicopter in general requires an incredibly steady hand on unintuitive controls that interact with each other in ways that are difficult to predict[1]. Being able to do
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by pdkl95 8y ago
A protocol - originally the diplomatic customs, procedures, conventions, and etiquette for relations between states - is by definition one of the ways of expressing intent . If I broadcast a request for an IPv4 address and your DHCP se
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Douglas Adams, in HHGttG: > The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. > The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pa
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by pdkl95 8y ago
>1 pretty much any user interaction paradigm is possible Is it possible to implement an interaction bound to a global hotkey (e.g. middle click) that takes the current selected text (in any window) and send it to the event target window
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Growing a resistant strain was more or less guaranteed, because we were effectively creating the ideal evolutionary pressure: an ideal growing medium that strongly favors any additional resistance to ampicillin. It's the same as why do
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by pdkl95 8y ago
I used to work at the JGI[1]. As we were technically part of the DOE, we were occasionally accused of being a "bioweapon lab" and other evidence-free conspiracy theories. We were a high-throughput sequencing lab; experimental rese
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Setting $CACHE_TTL to "months" on everything, and doing nothing else. That will break a lot . DNS isn't static; IPs regularly change as servers move, CDNs are introduced/changed. Long-term caching only works on NS
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by pdkl95 8y ago
What is this system that prevents pattern-of-life analysis while still sending all DNS queries to one nameserver? I'm still sending frequent short-TTL (normal caching) DNS lookups for most hosts that would betray my pattern-of-life in
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> and not really because you run a recursive resolver. "No", because the system depends on running a recursive resolver locally to separate queries onto different nameservers.
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> cryptography does not in fact run on trust This is true if and only if you can and have read the underlying math/algorithm. I haven't read Speck. My mother hasn't read the details of any type of crypto. So we don&#x
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Nobody said anything about a backdoor; the question was "what's suspect about Speck". Speck is suspicious (which includes more potential risks than just a "backdoor") because "Everything the NSA and the US go
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AP and Princeton: Google tracks location of users even when they tell it not to(boingboing.net)
44 points by pdkl95 8y ago|1 comments

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